XQ Institute

XQ Institute is an American nonprofit organization founded in September 2015 to transform high school in America, so every student graduates prepared to thrive in college, career and life. The organization is headquartered in Oakland, California and was founded by businesswoman and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, former assistant secretary of civil rights at the US Department of Education. The institute began with 'XQ: The Super School Project', a competition to identify new ideas to reform schools and improve student performance. Since 2015, XQ has helped communities across the US build new schools, redesign old ones and replace outdated systems with mastery-based, relevant learning.